I think a spec benefits language implementors more than it does every-day users. Sure, it will influence things in every-day PHP programming but ultimately I t

I think a spec benefits language implementors more than it does every-day users. Sure, it will influence things in every-day PHP programming but ultimately I think the target audience is different. Think of it as what the ECMA spec is to the Node.js API docs. Rarely does a user writing JS code using Node need to reference the ECMA spec (though they should by all means be familiar with it!) but they almost certainly have the API docs bookmarked.